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  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    ReviewArts
    Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell’s odd-couple podcast

    In ‘The Rest is Politics’, the pair take on the week’s news and tell tales from their time in power

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Media
    Former FT editor and BBC chief among investors to buy The New European

    Weekly publication launched after 2016 referendum has been focal point for Brexit resistance

  • Saturday, 14 November, 2020
    Bronwen Maddox
    Downing Street ructions shed light on the mysterious role of the ‘spad’

    Special advisers have power in British government, but no one knows how much until they test it

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    News in-depthLabour Party UK
    Labour leadership fight will decide if hard-left shift is abandoned

    Contest to replace Corbyn after devastating election defeat is likely to be bruising

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Roland Rudd quits as chair of People’s Vote campaign

    Highly public tussle for power within Brexit referendum group claims another scalp

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2019
    Labour Party UK
    Alastair Campbell expelled from Labour party

    Tony Blair’s former spin-doctor revealed he voted for Lib Dems in European elections

  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    Brexit
    Jeremy Corbyn should attack the government, not his own side

    Why is the Labour leader meddling in local councils rather than fighting Brexit?

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2017
    Special Report
    Alastair Campbell on whether extraordinary achievement has a dark side

    Tony Blair’s former head of communications and psychologist Oliver James delve deeper into drive, ambition and mental health

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Work & Careers7 min
    Does success strain mental health?

    Alastair Campbell discusses the stress of a high-pressured job

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2016
    Robert Shrimsley
    Tony Blair plans his second coming

    Notebook: After his exile from UK politics, the ex-PM believes his country needs him

  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2016
    The FT ViewChilcot inquiry
    A damning indictment of Blair’s failures over Iraq

    Chilcot’s long-awaited report cannot be accused of pulling its punches

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2016
    Brexit
    How to win the Europe referendum in an age of disbelief

    Each of us is an opinion-former and we must argue for Remain, writes Alastair Campbell

  • Friday, 27 February, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘Winners: And How They Succeed’, by Alastair Campbell

    A star-struck guide to the mindset of high achievers

  • Friday, 6 February, 2015
    UK general election
    Blairites sounded out Alan Johnson on Labour leadership

    Labour’s Mandelson and Campbell deny move against Miliband

  • Wednesday, 19 November, 2014
    beyondbricsMarkets
    Guest post: China’s “rule of law” is a Xi Jinping power grab
  • Monday, 22 September, 2014
    beyondbricsMarkets
    Guest post: China’s rule of law campaign is a political sledgehammer
  • Friday, 25 July, 2014
    Sport
    A captain should be pitch perfect at a multitude of skills

    In some sports, all the skipper does is call heads or tails. Not so in cricket, says Alastair Campbell

  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2014
    European companies
    Unionists feed on Salmond’s gaffes
  • Friday, 18 April, 2014
    World
    Cameron’s attempt to ‘do God’ is not blessed with success
  • Friday, 24 January, 2014
    ObituaryEuropean banks
    Chris Chataway, athlete, politician, businessman, 1931-2014

    Track star able to turn his hand to politics and profit

  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2013
    Leveson inquiry and phone hacking scandal
    Alastair Campbell to praise Ed Miliband for taking on newspapers
  • Friday, 11 October, 2013
    ReviewLife & Arts
    My Name Is ..., by Alastair Campbell; A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks; The Elephant Keepers’ Children, by Peter Høeg
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2013
    ReviewBooks
    Power Trip, by Damian McBride

    An unsparing yet defiant confession from a media manipulator provides a pub tale-like glimpse into the days of New Labour

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2013
    Westminster blogJim Pickard
    Lord Mandelson comments prompt backlash from Labour figures
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2013
    Matthew Engel
    Labour conference: Brighton gossip upstages weary slogans

    Allegations make Campbell seem paragon of truth, beauty and probity

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